Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Central Hindi Directorate
Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Urdu
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2844
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
811
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2033
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
104
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
谢谢
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
你好吗？
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
晚安
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
晚上好
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
下午好
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
早上好
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
请
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
遗憾
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
再见
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
我爱你
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
原谅我
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Khariboli
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Marwari
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Bundeli
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
321
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million120.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
cantonais
hindi
German Name
Kantonesisch
Hindi
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Hindustani people
Origin
17th century
7th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Standard Hindi
Language Position
15
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Indian Signing System
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
hin
ISO 639 2/B
yue
hin
ISO 639 3
No data available
hin
ISO 639 6
yue
hins
Glottocode
cant1236
hind1269
Linguasphere
No data available
59-AAF-qf
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic